Mystery Book Group In-Person
For February we will read 'The Forever Witness' by Edward Humes
After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf arrested a teenage couple's murderer-and exposed a looming battle between the pursuit of justice and the right to privacy. When Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook were murdered during a trip to Seattle in the 1980s, detectives had few leads. The murder weapon was missing. No one witnessed any suspicious activity. And there was only a single handprint on the outside of the young couple's van. The detectives assumed Tanya and Jay were victims of a serial killer-but without any leads, the case seemed forever doomed. In deep-freeze, long-term storage, biological evidence from the crime scenes sat waiting. Meanwhile, California resident CeCe Moore began her lifetime fascination with genetic genealogy. As DNA testing companies rapidly grew in popularity, she discovered another use for the technology: solving crimes. When Detective Jim Scharf decided to send the cold case's decades-old DNA to Parabon NanoLabs, he hoped he would bring closure to the Van Cuylenborg and Cook families. He didn't know that he and Moore would make history.
Order the book ---> The Forever Witness
The Mystery Book Group meets the second Monday of the month in the upstairs library mezzanine. For more information contact Karin Bartlett at karin.bartlett@northfieldmn.gov or by phone 507-645-1807.
- Date:
- Monday, February 9, 2026 Show more dates
- Time:
- 6:30pm - 7:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Library mezzanine
- Audience:
- Adult English
- Categories:
- Book Club